A Tipperary man who sexually assaulted his friend as she lay asleep beside him has been jailed for three years after a judge said it would “send out the wrong signal” to impose a non-custodial sentence.

A man died when a knife pierced his heart during a "violent and frenzied" attack, a pathologist has told a murder trial.

The woman said she would never live a normal life due to the abuse she suffered “from a man who was meant to love and protect me as a daughter.”

Prominent republican Thomas “Slab” Murphy made no tax returns over an eight-year period despite his cattle and farm dealings running into hundreds of thousands of euro, prosecutors have claimed.

A Dublin man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife he had bought him as a present has had his prison sentenced reduced by three years by the Court of Appeal.

A rape trial has collapsed after the alleged victim refused to give consent for the release of “sensitive personal information” held by social workers.

Two Dublin brothers who were found guilty of murdering a father-of-six in front of his wife and children have begun an appeal against their conviction for a second time.

A Limerick man who murdered a Ukrainian-born teenager by stabbing him through the chest has failed in an appeal against his conviction.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of three Northern Ireland men appealing against their convictions for membership of the IRA.

A lawyer for a Derry man who strangled his ex-girlfriend to death has asked a jury to find him guilty of manslaughter and not murder.

A jury today acquitted a 22-year-old Dublin man of murder but found him guilty of the manslaughter of an armed supermarket raider.

A jury in the trial of a 22-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering a supermarket raider has been sent home for the night having been deliberating for three hours and nine minutes in the Central Criminal Court today.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused a north Dublin businessman leave to appeal against his 10-year sentence for raping a foreign tourist in a Killarney hotel over five years ago.

A jury at the trial of a Dublin man accused of murder heard he stabbed the raider of a supermarket seven times as he was attempting to make his getaway after a robbery two years ago.

A Slovakian father-of-two has been sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his Polish flatmate after an argument about a light being left on.

A “major player in the heroin trade” has been jailed for twenty years for possession of over a million euro of the drug while his “lackey” has been given a six-year sentence.

The jury in a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court has been shown the blood-stained carpet from the accused man’s bedroom.

A murder trial has heard today that the alleged victim died after arguing with the defendant regarding a light being left on in their apartment.

The Court of Criminal appeal has quashed a 61-year-old man's conviction for sexually assaulting his daughter during the mid 1980's when she was a teenager.

SOME of the country’s leading banks are trying to “jump the queue” in the race to be the first to register claims over properties the subject of multiple mortgages taken out by solicitor Michael Lynn, the High Court was told by lawyers for other banks yesterday.

Three young Cork mothers who drove to Dublin on a "day out" to collect €140,000 of cannabis and were caught by gardaí when they got lost on the way home have been remanded in custody pending sentence.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal brought by two Dublin men against their conviction for IRA membership.

A Dublin student was given a three years suspended sentence by the Special Criminal Court today for IRA membership.

Two Travellers charged with triple attempted murder were acquitted on all charges at the Central Criminal Court today.

Jurors hearing the trial of two men accused of attempting to murder members of a Traveller family will vote in the General Election tomorrow morning before retiring to consider their verdicts.

A 23-year-old Dublin man was today sentenced to seven years for unlawful possession of an explosive device intercepted on the M50 motorway.

A detective garda patrolling north Dublin said he drove to Bray Garda Station out of "boredom" on the night a group of men were arrested under suspicious circumstances, the Special Criminal Court heard today in the trial of five men accused of membership of an illegal organisation.

A Co Monaghan man was found guilty at the Special Criminal Court today of having a massive haul of explosives near the border last year.